Improvement in carriage-tops



D. B. DORSEY.

Carriage Tops Patented Dec. 23,1873.

UNITED STATES PATENT CFFICE.

DENNIS B. DOBSEY, OF OHILLIGOTHE, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO ELI J. MARSH, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARRIAGE-TOPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,730, dated December 23, 1873 application filed October 21, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DENNIS B. DORSEY, of Chillieothe, in the county of Livingston and State of Missouri, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Shades in Connection with Oarriage-Tops; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact deseription of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of the shade, in section, attached to a carriage top. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the wire bows, showing their forms and attaching devices. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of said wire bows connected together, and attached to the front bow of a carriage-top. Fig. 4 is a side view of shade and its attachments on each edge, together with part of the cord for foldin g it.

My invention relates to a shade for childrens carriages, perambulators, or other similar vehicles; and consists in the construction, novel arrangement, and attachment of the same to the usual tops of said vehicles, for the purpose of providing a useful, convenient, easilyadjustable, and handsome protection from the suns rays, or against wind, rain, or other disagreeable elements.

The particular features of my device consist in the construction of a frame-work of wire, upon which is stretched a covering of cloth, or other equally suitable material, the formation of the attaching devices, the manner in which these connect the shadeto the carriage-top, together with the mode of operating the whole completed structure, all of which is hereinaftermore fully described, and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which the same letters designate the similar and corresponding parts of the device in the different figures, respectively.

The letters A A and B B represent two bows of wire, which form the frame upon which the covering G is stretched. The ends 0 G of the bow A A, as shown by Fig. 2, are bent in the form of hooks, which hook each into a screweye, D, said screw eyes D D being screwed into the front edge of the front bow E of the carriage-top, and at a point low enough down on said bow E to make the curves of thewire bows A A and B B correspond with the curve of said bow E when the shade is drawn up. At a suitable distance above the hooks, at either end of the wire bow A A, said bow is bent in the form of the loops at a, into which the wire bow B B, which is also bent at each end in the form of the loops 1) b, is fastened, by passing said loops b b through the loops a a, and clamping them. When the aforesaid wire bows are formed, bent, looped, and fastened together, and in their turn attached to the front bows of the carriage-top, as above described, the whole frame work appears as shown by Fig. 3. is now ready to be covered with cloth, or some other equally suitable material, said covering being sewed, on one edge, around the wire bow A A, so as to inclose it down to the loops a a, said edge being fringed, if desired, and the other edge being hemmed, and suitable knobholes 0 0 made within it, for the purpose of attaching said covering to the outer rim of the front bow E of the carriage-top. This is done by fastening said holes over corresponding knobs screwed into the outer rim of said front bow, the wire bow B B being held in position midway between the wire bow A A and the front bow E by its being tacked in its middle to the said covering.

The above-described modes of attachment to the carriage-top, by the edge on the one hand and by the hooks and eyes on the other, make said covering or shade equally as easy to remove as to attach. The above structure, therefore, when thus attached to the carriagetop, assumes its proper relation to said top, and fully complies with the purpose herein claimed, namely, a shade to a carriage top, presenting the appearance shown by Fig. 4.

In order to suit convenience, should it be desirable to raise the shade or lower it at will, a cord, (1, is attached by one end to the top of the wire bow A A, and passed upward and backward over the carriage-top, and through an eye, f, screwed into the upper rim of the rear bow of said top, at which point a tassel may be attached to the other end of the cord, for the double purpose of preventing the cord from slipping out of the eye, and of ornament.

The frame-work thus formed Thus, it is easy to raise and lower the shade at will by drawing upon or loosening the cord; and when the shade is fully drawn up it can be kept so by twisting the cord two or three times 7 around the eye. By these means the shade is easily andcompletely under the control of the person who is rolling the carriage. Therefore,

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of the pivot-hooks O O with the frame A A B B, covering G, and the top bow E, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. The attachment together of the wire bows of two witnesses.

DENNIS B. DORSEY. Witnesses:

W. T. S. RICE, J OHN Dnsrm. 

